| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jason Lustig" <lustig(at)brandeis(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Autovacuum running out of memory |
| Date: | 2007-10-16 14:08:20 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10710160708t5e874f6enfde031fc35cee2fd@mail.gmail.com |
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On 10/16/07, Jason Lustig <lustig(at)brandeis(dot)edu> wrote:
> Looking at my free memory (from TOP) I find
>
> Mem: 2062364k total, 1846696k used, 215668k free, 223324k buffers
> Swap: 2104496k total, 160k used, 2104336k free, 928216k cached
>
> So I don't think that I'm running out of memory total... it seems like it's
> continually trying to do it. Is there a reason why Postgres would be doing
> something without a username or database? Or is that just how autovacuum
> works?
You are NOT running out of memory. Look at the size of your cache and
buffers, together they add up to over 1 Gig of memory. You've got
plenty of free memory.
I'm betting you're running postgresql under an account with a ulimit
setting on your memory.
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